The goal

Guess the secret 5-letter word in six shots or fewer. After each guess, the tiles show how close you are.

Reading the colors

• Blue — right letter in the right spot.
• Orange — the letter is in the word, but in a different spot.
• Slate — the letter is not in the word.
• Repeated letters are scored letter-by-letter: a letter lights up only as many times as it appears in the answer.

Controls

• Type on your keyboard or tap the on-screen keys; Enter submits, Backspace deletes.
• Guesses must be real words — the game checks them against a dictionary of about 18,000 five-letter words (far more than can ever be answers). Gibberish is rejected without costing a shot.
• Hard mode is always on: every hint you’ve earned must be used. Blue letters must stay in their spot, and orange letters must appear in your next guess. Rejected guesses never cost a shot.

Finishing

The timer stops when you find the word (or run out of shots — then the answer is revealed). One new word every morning; recent words are in the archive after their day has passed.

Your statistics

Tap the 📊 icon by the timer to see your games played, win rate, current and best streaks, average solve time, and guess distribution. Stats are kept privately in your own browser — no account, no sign-in, nothing sent to any server. Each browser or device keeps its own history, and clearing site data resets it.

Where the words come from

Answers are drawn uniformly at random from a pool of about 2,400 five-letter words chosen purely by how often they appear in everyday English — no editor picks them. That means probability strategy actually works: common letters and patterns really are more likely, and plurals and word forms appear at their natural rates.